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bonsai is not my hobby
Join Date: Oct-2001
Location: Egling, south of Munich
Country: Germany
Posts: 1,433
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This is a closeup of the still remaining old stump.
The history goes back to the seventies. At a large parking lot field maples wer planted as landscape trees. After several years for some reason one foot of soil was put around the tres. As a consequence the trees threw new roots one foot above their old surface rootage, they airlaiered themselves. At the beginning of the nineties I heard that the whole area was going to be renovated. I rescued one tree which I thought was pretty good material. It was four feet high. I took a saw and cut under the point wher it had airlayered itself. At home I found the roots a bit small for the big trunk.
At night I had the idea that there must have been much better surface rootage down at the old nebari. It suddenly occured to me that this could be the basis od an enormous clump.
I went back the next day and dug out the old roots. I then cut the stump flat with the ground and planted it into my growing field. The rest oyu can see from the pictures.
Ironically the original large tree that I had collected died very soon afterwards.
best regaersd
Walter Pall
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